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. 2022 Dec 1;49(4):114–125.

Table 5.

Ratio and 95% CI of Observed to Expected Number of Deaths at Discharge Among 10,210 Individuals with COVID-19 Hospitalization and a History of Cancer, by Cancer Type

Cancer type Number of observed deaths Number of expected deaths* Ratio of observed to expected (95% CI)
Brain and other nervous system <11 Suppressed 0.85 (0.39-1.62)
Breast 267 366 0.73 (0.64-0.82)
Cervix uteri 14 17 0.83 (0.45-1.40)
Colorectal 207 233 0.89 (0.77-1.02)
Corpus uterus and NOS 75 98 0.76 (0.60-0.96)
Esophagus 12 10 1.14 (0.59-2.00)
Hodgkin lymphoma 12 11 1.13 (0.58-1.97)
Kidney and renal pelvis 98 105 0.94 (0.76-1.14)
Larynx 15 18 0.85 (0.48-1.41)
Leukemias 113 110 1.03 (0.85-1.24)
Liver and intrahepatic bile duct 33 25 1.32 (0.91-1.86)
Lung and bronchus 235 212 1.1 1 (0.97-1.26)
Melanoma 46 72 0.64 (0.47-0.85)
Myeloma 65 62 1.04 (0.80-1.33)
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas 140 138 1.01 (0.85-1.19)
Oral cavity and pharynx 36 41 0.88 (0.61-1.21)
Other malignancies of hematopoietic or lymphopoietic origin 58 61 0.94 (0.72-1.22)
Ovary 12 20 0.61 (0.32-1.07)
Pancreas 24 22 1.07 (0.68-1.59)
Prostate 532 552 0.96 (0.88-1.05)
Stomach 27 31 0.88 (0.58-1.28)
Testis <11 Suppressed 0.34 (0.04-1.24)
Thyroid 37 55 0.67 (0.47-0.93)
Urinary bladder including in situ 153 157 0.97 (0.83-1.14)

NOS, not otherwise specified. * Number of expected COVID-19 hospitalizations was calculated using the age- and sex-specific proportions of deaths for all 10,210 cancers.